>This is what the Chinese saw when they were told British ships were arriving during the Opium Wars and Boxer Rebellion
Would you have been a sepoy for the East India Company if you were an Indian peasant/untouchable in 18th century? Or would you have chosen to serve under feudal lords beneath your Indian Brahmin/Kshatriyan master?
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Brits because indians in euro style colonial uniforms (especially if they have turbans) are extremely aesthetic
Can't argue on that.
I would just sleep on my cot and travel like a free spirit. Ain’t no Brahmin or Englishman gonna tell me what to do
you would need money for food. and yes, currency was a thing even in those times. rupee was the standard across india established by mughals and adopted by marathas, english, etc. serving in India. so you would need to earn money from somewhere. mercernary work paid the most in those times.
I would live like a hunter gatherer. Hunt animals for food and cook it over a bonfire. If I needed something I could just steal it from some ship or whatever.
Being a thugee would've also been kind of cool. Robbing trains and caravans.
real life is not RDR2 or assassins creed lol
Where are the british officers?
sorry but the opium war was fought by the british navy
these are the sepoys, basically what americans call "privates".
this shot is from the movie about sepoy rebellion, the guy in the front shoots his commanding English officer and tells all the soldiers to leave their ranks and rebel.
the cause of the rebellion was that someone told him that the english catridges which were given to indian soldiers had beef/pork content in them. you had to bite the catridge off to be able to fire it, with your teeth, so muslims and hindus soldiers were both offended. his English CO told him to not worry because the East India Company takes good care of the religious beliefs of its men, but then some dude showed him a new catridge from the factory and made him smell it and it smelled like beef.
Oh. i made this post after i read this account by an indian solider in china. its called "chin me terah mas" (13 Months in China)
in that book, he laments joining the army because there was no glory in the work, since majority of his indian mates would abuse chinese civilians, and the europeans/americans were doing the same.
>and the europeans/americans were doing the same.
It's okay pajeet bro. We have not forgotten. Their days are counted.
>He described the systematic killings, arson and rape to which the population of Tianjin, Beijing and the numerous villages in between were subjected. Some of the incidents he mentioned showed that the atrocities were purely wanton, in which hapless persons were tortured merely for the fun of it. And ’all these sportsmen’, he noted in disgust, ’belonged to what were called the civilized races! (referring to Europeans)’
Most of the soldiers were indoids
Yeah, people often forgot that half of the british wars in this region were fought by indians, and not british
>’In India, the English used to engage Doms (a caste) to kill dogs by paying them at the rate of two to four annas per dog and thus every six months or a year organized a campaign to give salvation to the souls of poor dogs. Same thing was being done here (in China) to human beings. Whoever had a few goods, got the gift of salvation. The only difference was that the dog-killers in India used to be Doms, the man-killers here included also the civilized, gentlemanly, self-proclaimed "high caste" Hindus.’ However, there were also other Indians, like an Indian Army doctor called Pandit Ram Datt, whom Gadadhar Singh noted as having tried their best in the face of all odds to save the lives of some Chinese.'
>civilized, gentlemanly, self-proclaimed "high caste" Hindus
I'm Anglo-Portugese-Indian, where would that place me?
Skinnner's Horse, also called "1st Indian Horse" was populated by Anglo-Indian mutts.
this is pretty epic, let's bring back the Century of Humiliation for a round 2
drinking their tea in the cabin
Man, you guys look aesthetic as fuck with those uniforms, post more pics
this but unironically
red coats were abandoned at the turn of the late 19th century. i can only find paintings from old british journals or from historical movies
no, Tbh im cool with china.
the full beards and wild unkempt visages are a bit out of place in the uniform
Is there any proof it was real?
>He posted from his parents house in Melbourne
>After his millionth time being yelled at for not having a job and locking himself in his room
All of this posturing. The Chinese are even more materialistic and consumerist than westerners, their days will be counted. You in turn have been infected with the white vs. nonwhite slave morality. You are a slave
Post-Independence uniforms use khaki colour instead. And the headgear is changed a bit.
Nah Chinese faced this
>This is who built the largest empire the worlds ever seen
How will the other races recover
Yes, there is some evidence it was true. But it was overexaggerated to initiate the rebellion.
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While this suggestion was being considered, the Commander-in-Chief George
Anson issued an order on March 23 that firing practice be suspended
temporarily. Clearly even at this point, the matter of the grease had not
been settled. Eventually, in early April (Palmer can't find the exact date
of the order), we find in the Government's report to the Court of Directors,
No. 115, dt. 8 April 1857 (the day Mangal Pandey was hanged), that
Brontein's suggestion has been accepted by the Government. The Platoon
exercise was revised as follows:
old instructions:
Load
1st—Bring the cartridge to the mouth, holding it between the forefinger
and the thumb with the ball in the hand, and bite off the top; elbow
close to the body.
new:
Load
1st—Bring the cartridge to the left hand, bullet resting on the palm of
the right, right elbow slightly raised, tear off the top of the cartridge
by the action of dropping the elbow. [p.16]
Thus, we find no evidence of any mechanism whereby the cartridges at the time
of the training could have been made from anything but beef or pork tallow.
Prima facie, therefore, we must conclude that the several hundred Indian
soldiers trained at Meerut from late 1856 were almost certainly issued
bullets with beef or pork grease.
The ultimate reason China is a great power and India is not is due to the guidance and leadership of the Communist Party.
would be disingenious to call it a Communist party. It's more like PPC (Pragmatic Party of China) than CPC.
Do you think India will become a superpower if it became a authoritarian state like China instead of remain democratic?
also 1857 was pretty localised, it only happened in North India , not even Pakis bothered to rebel. while southern provinces did not. if Pakis had rebelled along maybe we would've been looking at a different situation. Like the North would be a kind of state like Iran and the South would be part of the empire.
This is true, but I’d argue even actions taken under Mao helped them a lot in the long run, despite his mistakes. For example, the KMT also wanted to do land reform but couldn’t due to their reliance on the Gentry class.
They later did on Taiwan since their position was stronger, and it seriously kickstarted industrialization.
>waaaaaaaah i want genocide so I can live out my epic power fantasies!
why are white people like this?
China's pretty homogenous. I mean, it's kinda like US where every province might have it's own subculture but at the end of the day, they're part of one monoculture. It's 90% Han.
With India, it's a totally different situation. I mean, we don't even have a majority at all, linguistically, ethnically, States slow us down. If 27 states agree to something and 1 doesn't, the whole thing gets slowed down.
Must have left behind a lot of chindian haha